Immigration Specialist Review

I work in the immigration team, conducting business travel compliance, ensuring that business travelers have the correct immigration documentation in place before travelling on business. I work with external stakeholders to obtain work permits, work permit waivers and posted worker notifications. I also liaise with our tax team to ensure compliance for tax and social security.

I started in a seconded role when I started the ILM course, I was able to use my lessons in self awareness and self management to understand my blind spots and organisational skills and how I could improve on them. In my seconded role it was a whole new role, so I had to build an end to end process. I was able to use decision making and problem solving with this role.

I enjoyed learning about my self and building on my hidden skills. I was able to unleash the skills that I had and develop them into something better. I have improved on my communication skills and no longer hide away when needing to speak or email senior leadership or executive employees.

The programme was very well structured with the training days and meeting with my tutor to work on gaps within my portfolio. I was able to use this learning to organise how did my day to day role and still be able to complete the on/off the job training.

My manager was very supportive during my time on the course. She advised to utilise my focus time in my calendar to get the training completed each week. I also had great support from my team, who were able to support my workload when I was needing to train and concentrate on my subjects.

My tutor at Accipio was great, always got me to think outside of the box, including getting me to do questions and answers via a recording rather than typing, this took me out of my comfort zone. We had a great rapport, Wendy was very friendly, which made me feel at ease.

My communication skills have vastly improved, not just in written but spoken too. I am able to adapt in different situations and I now understand how my behaviours can be perceived by others. I no longer become as nervous as I use to in situations that use to make me feel uncomfortable.

Yes at Cummins there are plenty of opportunities to get involve with networking events, with working out in the community or internally on improving your performance. There are also opportunity to complete external networking with stakeholders and vendors. Cummins are always giving employees opportunities to progress in their career by providing projects that takes employees away from their normal day to day role.

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I have worked at Cummins for nearly 10 years and I have being given different opportunities over the years. From implemented a new acquisition, a new payroll system and now the current seconded role that I am doing now, taking a manual process and developing it into an electronic tool. Such a varied amount of work. Everyone has transferrable skills and these can be utilised elsewhere.

Cummins likes to retain talent, do not shy away, sell yourself. Preparation is key, do some research and learn about the company. Always have some notes to refer to when interviewing, this shows that you are taking the role seriously and you want to get the role. Be yourself and let your skills shine.